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Quotes About Betrayal

We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it.
~ Terry McMillan
I hope you meet somebody and get married and then they fucking disappoint you and you have to go through a divorce, and then maybe you'll get it.
~ Terry McMillan
I know you know the tale of Baby June You know the way she could deliver a tune She was a killer in a petticoat A little bit of everyone you adore... And if your baby let you down at night, Well Baby June would make it up alright And I was never happier Than in the arms and charms of her
~ Terry Moore
The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to find our sovereign voice often requires a betrayal.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
he knew that the cruelest of blows too often came with a smile.
~ Tess Gerritsen
The doors to my heart had shut. I had only hate inside me, complete hate. I felt as if my life were just a series of betrayals. So when Jamie, the one good thing, finally arrived, I was too hardened. Like a dried-up grape, nothing could bring back my sweetness.
~ Tess Uriza Holthe
Een man die zich haar vader noemde, maar zoiets deed een vader toch niet?
~ Tessa de Loo
Voor het eerst in haar leven voelde ze een vleug pure haat opkomen, snel en schichtig, als een nog onbekende vijand die niet gezien wil worden en wegduikt in het struikgewas als je zijn kant op kijkt. Haat jegens de man die hun dit had aangedaan. Een man die zich haar vader noemde, maar zoiets deed een vader toch niet?
~ Tessa de Loo
Only a buzzard feeds on his friends.
~ Texas Bix Bender
Oh, Graciosa, I have never been able to think about it without terror, loving somebody who is unworthy of my love. To bare my soul to impure eyes, and allow someone to defile the sanctuary of my heart. For though you may make a complete break some silt will always remains, and the stream never regains the original clarity.
~ Theophile Gautier
The man who listens not to the words of affectionate friends will give joy in the time of distress to his enemies.
~ The Hitopadesa
Trust is like money. Hard to earn, easy to lose. -Okiki MIchael
~ The Post
it was a great big lie.
~ The Strokes
Oh yes, Joh—oh yes! Your sin walks behind you like a good dog on the trail. It does not lose your scent, Joh—it remains always and always at your back. A friend is unarmed against his friend. He has no shield before his breast, nor armor before his heart. A friend who believes in his friend is a defenseless man. A defenseless man was it whom you betrayed, Joh.
~ Thea von Harbou
Royal reaction to the British publication of the book was draconian. Crawfie had to leave her grace-and-favour cottage; her entry in Who's Who was withdrawn; her name was not even mentioned in officially authorized biographies such as John Wheeler-Bennett's King George VI or Dorothy Laird's Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. She retired to Aberdeen from where, with extraordinary insensitivity, she pestered the family with frequent requests.
~ Theo Aronson
Next time a rattlesnake bites you, or you crack a rib, or find some whore with a sliced-up arm, don't call me. Call somebody who doesn't care." ~0~
~ Theresa Weir
Leave your wife and children, never have contact with them again, and I will give you a life of luxury. He sold his soul. And he'd done it with both eyes open.
~ Theresa Weir
But when the face of Sextus Was seen among the foes, A yell that rent the firmament From all the town arose. On the house-tops was no woman But spat towards him and hissed, No child but screamed out curses, And shook its little fist.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
Alas! For shame," said Sir Launcelot, "that ever one knight should betray another! But it is an old saw, a good man is never in danger, but when he is in danger of a coward.
~ Thomas Bulfinch
Thus," said she, "shall be treated the deceiver, the traitor, the faithless, the disgraced, and the beardless.
~ Thomas Bulfinch
The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Faygne woulde I curse thee further, botte mie tyngue Denies mie harte the favoure soe toe doe.
~ Thomas Chatterton
If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life?
~ Rod Steiger
I've got a record titled 'Idols Become Rivals,' and it's basically me writing a letter to someone in the game that I looked up to damn near the most, and I hate what things have come to.
~ Rick Ross